Cleanup, redevelopment of Chicopee brownfields continues

After accepting three $200,000 U.S. EPA grants for continued brownfields clean-up at the former Uniroyal property in July, Mayor Richard Kos, City Treasurer Marie Laflamme, and Director of Planning Lee Pouliot announced that brownfields cleanup at the former Racing Oil site at 181 Center St. began in late August.
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Opinion: Pumpkin – one flavor to rule them all? What the heck?

I’m standing at a Dunkin’ Donuts the other day waiting for a breakfast sandwich and I could help but be drawn to a video billboard in the shop breathlessly proclaiming the return of pumpkin to the establishment.
Pumpkin flavor in various coffee drinks, pumpkin cream cheese for bagels and pumpkin c
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Eat.Enjoy.Live.: A first timer tries out Big E food

For veteran Big E attendees we know the drill: going to the fair means being able to try food we’ve never seen before and never imagined before.
Fair food is an art form located at the intersection of taste, novelty and mobility. A fair food item may be the best tasting treat you’ve ever had, but
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Eat.Enjoy.Live.: Tree House grows into its new home

Hidden in plain sight at Tree House Brewing Company’s new facility in Charlton is a subtle nod to its humble beginnings. Etched into the floor is the original floor plan, with proper dimensions, of the original brewery in Brimfield. The positioning of the bar, fermenters, stairs and even the potbelly stove harkens back to a past that seems long ago, but is, indeed, not forgotten.
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